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...Columbia University who perfected FM, proposed a compromise-just a short move next door, say, to a 48-to-66 band. Major Armstrong probably knows more than any other man alive about FM, which is about as easy to understand at first glance as a menu written in Sanskrit. Beginners might start with some of the following facts...
...hung pictures of Krishna, Jesus, Buddha, Confucius, other great religious teachers. The swami enters bareheaded, wearing a long, bright yellow robe that sweeps the floor. He too sits crosslegged, pulls a shawl around him, and for ten minutes meditates in silence. Then in a ringing bass he chants a Sanskrit invocation, repeats it in English, ending with the words, "Peace, Peace, Peace...
...even more obscure 628-page Finnegans Wake would agree that a lifetime is no more than enough. But ever since Finnegans Wake (1939) Joyce enthusiasts have sought to cut down this lifetime labor by laying a trail through this Joycean jungle, in which Erse, Latin, Dutch, Greek, French, Sanskrit, Russian and Esperanto rankly intertwine themselves with nightmared snatches of popular songs, fables, myths, allegories, lyric poetry, puns* and prophecies...
...country which was in a backward phase of technical and political evolution. It is also, and conspicuously, true that it originated in a country which was in a backward phase of linguistic evolution. . . . There is no royal road to fluency in a language which shares the grammatical intricacies of Sanskrit, Lithuanian, or Russian. It is therefore impossible to give the reader who wishes to learn Russian any good advice except to take the precaution of being born and brought up in Russia. . . . Shortcomings of the Russian language . . . signify . . . the existence of a powerful social obstacle to cultural relations between...
Natural shellac is produced in much the same way as beeswax. It is a resin secreted by insects called Laccifer lacca. After feeding on the sap of certain cultivated Oriental trees, the insects coat the tree twigs with an exudation called "lac" (from the Sanskrit word laksha, meaning 100,000, referring to the thousands of insects in a colony). Indian natives scrape the lac off the twigs, heat it in cloth bags, strain off the melted shellac. The final product is a flaky substance that dissolves readily in alcohol and, when spread on a surface, dries quickly to a hard...